How can we count cells from microscopic images?

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• Summary: Segmentation of cervical cells as part of the Pap-smear analysis automation process: this work was awarded 1st place in ISBI'2014 Cervical Cell Recognition Challenge.
• Static: http://vis.lbl.gov/~daniela/img/tcervical.png
• Movie: https://youtu.be/G4JOcZo8GyM

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How it started: Segmentation of cervical cells as part of the Pap-smear analysis automation process: this work was awarded 1st place in ISBI'2014 Cervical Cell Recognition Challenge.
A picture: http://vis.lbl.gov/~daniela/img/tcervical.png
A Movie: https://youtu.be/G4JOcZo8GyM
Main website: https://bids.berkeley.edu/research/cervical
History about the project: https://sites.google.com/site/cervicalcancercell/home
News: https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2014/adapting-materials-sciences-algorithms-for-cancer-screening-leads-to-award-for-berkeley-lab-researcher/

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Contact Solange (Rwanda)
What's the status? Our teams have ideas, algorithms, prototypes, but we are not yet saving lives - I'd love to do it, but it takes a village. We need help. In the meantime, awareness is the most tangible immediate accomplishment, including resilience in investigating the problem.

Why to care? I truly believe that the 2017 technology can improve cervical screening using conventional Pap smears, but there's not enough interest or understanding about cervical cancer. In Brazil, cervical cancer is the 3rd most common cancer among women. In East Africa, it's the first - unfortunately, I feel it has turned into a underdeveloped country problem. Also, I have personal motivations: heros died of cervical cancer (Ada Lovelace), hundreds of thousand of women die yearly, and my dear youngest aunt was diagnosed advanced cervical cancer while I was in Kenya - an irony that I intend to turn into fuel to continue the battle for women's health improvement through technology.

What has our team done? We made a dent, and we are confident there's a way to make it better, bigger and impactful. I'm sharing some steps so far below. We have some new technological directions with high potential, and we are welcoming more ideas.